Word: conglomerateur
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...double its production capacity. Now Mocha is looking at two more potential acquisitions, each of which would cost around $100,000 to $150,000; they may be a way to increase sales and profits without adding to his 24-employee payroll. But Mocha has no dreams of becoming a conglomerateur. "I know the truck-equipment industry," he says. "But if I were to buy a waffle shop, the learning curve would be very high...
...million. But the whole sale made only $41.2 million, which left the house with a net loss of $10 million to $15 million. Even its star picture--a 1916 Modigliani nude whose rosy skin and cute pubic patch would, one might have thought, rouse the cupidity of any redblooded conglomerateur--failed to reach its $10 million estimate...
...close to a century of movie history has not taught us that, then the past year of Roberts' professional history certainly has. For she has become the designated heroine of our redemptive fairy tales. Having taught a workaholic conglomerateur how to love in Pretty Woman and herself how to overcome the battered-wife syndrome in Sleeping with the Enemy, surely she can help Victor come to grips with the sadness of Dying Young...
...clearly lacks the bravura of his former boss, producer Samuel Goldwyn, for whom Davis once worked as an office boy and press agent. But Davis is a man in a hurry. He leapfrogged to the top of Gulf & Western over two more senior executives after the death of conglomerateur Charles Bluhdorn. It took Davis just six years to transform Gulf & Western from an unwieldy, 1960s-style pastiche of unrelated companies into the more focused media giant that he renamed Paramount Communications the day before he launched his bid for Time Inc. He is fond of exhorting his employees to "lead...
...acting chairman and Tisch will serve as chief executive. For the 84-year-old Paley, it is a triumphant return to a throne that he had never really wanted to relinquish. But clearly the man who has captured control of CBS is Tisch, 63. The shrewd investor and conglomerateur is now far and away the company's largest shareholder, with 24.9% of its stock (Paley is next with 8.1%). The irony of Tisch's sudden rise to dominance was considerable, since the soft- spoken, bald executive first purchased CBS shares last year largely at Wyman's behest, in an effort...